Hot take: Erislandy Lara vs. Jarrett Hurd will resemble Yves Ulysse Jr. vs. Cletus Seldin writ large

In terms of body frame they're probably about the same, though. Canelo, too. All three are probably "natural" middleweights.

 

Why not? He either will successfully pull off that game plan (in which case a shutout is a perfectly reasonable expectation) or he won't (in which case the cards might be academic, if Hurd manages to pin him down and smash him up as some are predicting).

 

I didn't say any one of them had all three. I said all three of them encompass those elements, and each has a combination of a few of them. How you extrapolate me thinking Canelo is taller than Lara from that I don't know.

 

Lara has gone 12 with more serious threats. Going 12 with Hurd has only been a problem thus far for one-dimensional jab stylist & glass cannon Harrison, and shopworn can't-resist-a-good-scrap Trout.

 

I'm busy with the ladyboys RBR for the rest of the night, so sure, feel free to tag in if you want.

This is like a LOD handicap match vs. Hacksaw Duggan, though, I feel bad.

 

Oh Farmy, the melodrama, it cuts me to the quick! The fact that a US TV outlet didn't happen to pick a fight up doesn't mean it was boycotted, you realize that, right?

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Everyone acts like Hurd being the one that initially wanted Lara is "proof" that he "knows he can beat him". Well yeah, a young cat on the come-up trying to build his brand is going to call out the avoided guy in his division. Especially when it's win-win for Hurd. He either (best case scenario in this gamble for him) catches Lara slipping badly and can pass himself off as a beast for being the first to stop him, or he loses a decision and can just shrug and say "Hey, it's Lara, he makes everybody look bad and he's impossible to outpoint clearly" and it doesn't hurt his young budding legacy at all. And every cocky young rooster thinks he can beat everybody in the world. It takes getting in with a grizzled veteran to bring the reality crashing down that no, you've got your limits. Hurd almost had that a-ha moment with Trout, but this time the lesson will stick.